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This takes a picture (with the web cam) every 5 minutes, and send the picture to your e-mail.
Some systems support
mail -a "References: "
so that all video surveillance emails are grouped in a single email thread.
To keep your inbox clean, it is still possible to filter and move to trash video surveillance emails (and restore these emails only if you really get robbed!)
For instance with Gmail, emails sent to me+trash@gmail.com can be filtered with "Matches: DeliveredTo:me+trash@gmail.com"
You need to have fortune and cowsay installed. It uses a subshell to list cow files in you cow directory (this folder is default for debian based systems, others might use another folder).
you can add it to your .bashrc file to have it great you with something interesting every time you start a new session.
It seems to completely void the benefit of having an encrypted folder if you then have a script on your unencrypted hard drive with your password in it. This command will mount a truecrypt file at a given mount point after asking you for the password.
Very useful when the ssh key of a host has changed and ssh refuses to connect to the machine, while giving you the line number that has changed in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
Useful to create an alias that sends you right in the directory you want :
alias server-etc="ssh -t server 'cd /etc && $SHELL'"
Lists out all classes used in all *.html files in the currect directory. usefull for checking if you have left out any style definitions, or accidentally given a different name than you intended. ( I have an ugly habit of accidentally substituting camelCase instead of using under_scores: i would name soemthing counterBox instead of counter_box)
WARNING: assumes you give classnames in between double quotes, and that you apply only one class per element.
$translate
works from command line
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously